Accessibility

Tesco.ie is committed to providing you a website that is accessible to the widest possible audiences.

Please see additional detail below.

 

Using the Site

We have aimed to create sites that are available to everyone including those with sight, audio and motor impairment restrictions.

1. We aim to use a web font, so all text is easy to read.
2. We have appropriate alt tags for images to convey information.
3. We ensure that navigation through our websites works in a consistent way.
4. We do not rely on just colour as the only way of giving information.
5. We avoid the use of images of text wherever possible and provide equivalent text links that consist of images.

Here are a few helpful ways in which you can start using the website more easily.

 

To enlarge text and images on the site

On a PC:

1. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press '+' to enlarge.
2. Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press '-' to reduce.
3. To reset hold down 'Ctrl' and press '0'.

On an Apple Macintosh computer hold the 'Cmd' (Apple) key instead of 'Ctrl'.

 

Browser accessibility options

Each browser has different methods for font size, formatting, and screen colour options:

Google Chrome accessibility options, under the Chrome Browser Resources section.

Internet Explorer accessibility options.

Mozilla Firefox accessibility options.

 

To change the size of the window of the site

On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press 'F11'.

 

Search Tips

A search box appears at the top of each page. To get the best results follow these tips:

Use keywords - the search won't work well using natural language, keywords will find better results. Use quotes to search for an exact phrase.

 

How the Site is built for Accessibility

 

Standards

All pages on this site are WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2. Whilst we would like to say this is categorically so it is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and cannot be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.

We strive to make all pages validate to a W3C formal grammar (XHTML Strict or HTML 5).

 

Layout

The site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all of the presentation and layout. Tables are used only to present data.

As a result, screen reader users can use the screen reader's navigation key to get around the site. If you are listening to the site, menus are grouped together in a more logical fashion.

 

Content

The content has been written and formatted to make it accessible. For example:

Headings highlight sections of text (a h1 starts the content area of each page).

Sentences are short with the meaning at the beginning.

Links use meaningful text.

Forms can be navigated using the tab key.

 

Accessibility Barriers

Through research of standard guidelines, Tesco.ie are continually working to improve the accessibility of our sites that we have, in the meantime should you experience any difficulties please contact us explaining the problems you encountered.

 

Contact

If you are experiencing difficulties accessing the site, or have any comments, please do not hesitate to contact customer services on 1800 248 123.

Monday to Sunday: 9am to 6pm.